Monthly Archive for January, 2013

: January, 2013

Libertarianism protects personal liberty from being impaired by government. It creates weak states on the assumption that without government intrusion personal freedom will blossom.

The black experience is a living reminder that government is not alone as a potential threat to personal liberty. It is possible, as in the Jim Crow South, to build a government so weak that no one’s personal liberties can be protected.

There’s nothing new about conspiracy theories in politics, but the degree to which they have entered mainstream political discourse is shocking and unprecedented. From Benghazi to Agenda 21, there seem to be no filters remaining to prevent ludicrous ideas from reaching the highest levels of policy. Somewhere over the past decade or so, the politics of crazy jumped the tin-foil barrier and started to influence the political opinions of ordinary people who are otherwise competent, intelligent and even educated. …

Faced with a dizzying pace of social and technological change the conservative movement has been gripped by a seizure of paranoia. Conservatism is not merely the eternal yin to our political yang. It had a discrete beginning as an intellectual alternative to the values of the French Revolution and it could very well have an end in an age of near-perpetual social disruption if we fail to adapt. …

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